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Typically, Google captures images for its Street View platform through cars — outfitted with cameras — that roam the streets and automatically take snapshots. But in the case of the parks and trails, the images were captured via Google Trekker, a wearable, 40-pound backpack that contains cameras and GPS devices used to gather images in areas not accessible to cars.

Houston Parks Board borrowed a Trekker and walked 150 miles of park land and trails to gather the images from November 2014 to April 2015.

The move should help generate buzz around the the Bayou Greenways 2020 project, the Houston Parks Board’s effort to create a continuous park system along all of Houston’s waterways. Bacon says he hopes the project helps the public get a preview of the project’s potential.

Click below for a full list of the parks and trails now accessible via Google Street View.

This article was originally published on The Urban Edge. The Kinder Institute for Urban Research is a multi-disciplinary ‘think-and-do tank’ housed on the Rice University campus in central Houston, focusing on urban issues in Houston, the American Sunbelt, and around the world.